Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! mouse. English scientists are puzzled by 30
! strange departure.
A MINNESOTA MAN offered TO wager $40
that he would sleep all night in bed with a
small pox patient and not catch the disease
| Dut alter the money was up the legal autnorl-
| Ties prevented him from carrying out dis
! plans.
MAN at Elizabeth. n. j., picked mp his
cat in the back yard the other evening and
| tossed her into the kitchen. The family were
| leaving the house five minutes later, and they
| don't expect to return for couple OF weeks
| yet. The cat happened to be skunk.
! THEY are trying to introduce green chalk
In some of the billiard rooms of Chicago. 1t
is claimed that the chalk loses none of It's ad-
hesiveness by reason of lis artificial color, and
that il possesses the merit OF preservng the
color of cloth. Chalk. as it is used at present,
soon fades the heaviest emerald cloth, and
makes the tables appear unslghtly ana worn.
AT Allegheny City, Pa, a drove of hogs got
frightened while passing drug store and
rushed entirely through the place, doing all
the damage possible. Bottles and jars of all
sizes and shapes were knocked down and
smashed on all Sides and the stove upset. A
destructive fire would have capped the
climax but for the prompt action Of the pro-
prletor.
BUTTE ANACONDA in Montana is the latest
| and most extensive mining camp in the West.
Its % 900 citizens support four daily newspa-
pers five brass and string bands. three variety
theatres, one opera house, and any number OF
gambling and drinking establishments. The
city is out of debt, and has $l4 600 in the
Treasury. The mines in the District for the
| year 1886 will produce close ON S24 900 900.
The Paris Intransigeant states that the
! famous treasure of Hue, captured by Gen.
de Courcey in the Imperial palace and sent to
France, and which was supposed to be worth
fro fnr npn m in "a
be of no value at all. The supposed bars Of
silver are simply lead, AS Bret Harte would
remark, 'fOr ways that are dark and tricks
that are vain the heather Chinee is peculiar"
THE Chicago Press Club recently laid claim
to the possession of the first greenback ever
Issued. The assistant cashier of an Angola
Ind, bank controverts the claim and says:
~ lay claim to the ownership of that very
bill myself: have had 1t for fifteen years, and
when at the Treasury Department 10 1873,
during the Centennial Exposition, was Of
fered 500 gold piece for it, so l know that
my bill Is the genuine article"
THE telephone girls at Lancaster, Pa, are
out on novel strike. The company had the
lower windows painted to keep the girls from
flirting with the boys on the outside, but the
mAidens overcome this obstacle by lowering
the upper sash. and continued to amuse them
selves in the old way. The managers teen
had the lower sash screwed down, but the
girls considered this an infringement upon
their rights and struck work. They are still
waiting the managers permission to look out
OF the window.
LEASING, the German philosopher, being
absent minded, knocked at his own door one
evening, when the servant. looking out of
the window and not recognizing him, said !:
1.-THE professor is not at home" "Oh, very
WELL" said Leasing composedly, walking
away; "Tll call another time" DR.. Pea
body, of Cambridge, once called at the post
Office for letter, but could not remember his
name. On leaving the office he met student.
who said: Good evening, DR.. Peabody"
''Ah," replied the doctor, 'ttnank you, thank
YOU" and returned for the letter.
THE police of Buffalo attempted to prevent
Mrs, Parsons, the wife of che condemned An
archist, from speaking in that city. but she
Haunted the license in their faces and pushed
those officers who had gained the platform off.
She said: 81 am revolutionist, but am not
on that mission this time. / am here to up
hold the laws and defy the officers OF the
law" She added that the course OF the An
archists could not be checked were their
masters to erect scaffold on every street
corner. The audience was orderly but some
what excited. The police made no demon
stration after their first setback.
DAVID II. THOMAS. late superintendent OF
the Erie railroad, in accordance with his
wishes, was buried in Buffalo in accordance
with the new antiseptlc process of cementa-
ton. The grave was 16 inches larger each
way than usual. Eight inches of cement were
then put in the open grave and the outer case
was lowered so as to set squarely upon the
cement, leaving small trench So inches wide
about the case, the upper surface of it being
inches lower than the surface of the ground
The trench was then filed with cement, and
the casket lowered into the case. The cover
was screwed on, and inches more of cement
placed over 1t, bringing the surface of the
cement level with the ground. The process
produced favorable impression on the spec
Lators.
IN a recent issue, the Elizabeth City IN. c.
Economist contained the following para
graph: 1.-The genial winter atmosphere per-
vades all space, and our people are hospitable
to strangers. We would that all who wheeze
and sneeZe north of Mason and Dixon's line
could have been here for the last few days. -
And then just under it the following item of
news appears: FRIDAY night, 9th inst, two
cOlOred girls, aged II and IS years respective
ly, were frozen to death in Durant's Neck.
Their mother, emma Blanchard. sent them to
neighbours on an errand, and on their Way
home dark overlook them in a dense, large
wood, where they lost their way, and cropping
about IN the intense cold and darkness and
binding snow, they at last succumbed Their
bodies were found half mile apart"
BANGOR MAN owns handsome Skye ter
rler dog, which has been taught to take pa
per bag in his mouth and go to restaurant
after his dinner. ii; goes to the door of the
establishment and scratches the outside till
he is admitted. Then he 9tets down stairs and
deposits his paper bag on tie eoor and waits
patiently until some meat Is placed in it, and
then returns to the store of his owner. The
other day the restaurant people placed some
raw potato cuttings in the bag Instead of meat
and twisted 1t up as usual. The terrier did
not discover the trick until he had reached
the outside door of the restaurant when he
suddenly dropped the bag on the floor, paved
1t open, and found out that he had been
fooled. Then he could not be induced to
touch it until some meat had been placed in
the bag IN plain sight, when he took up his
dinner and trotted to the store with it. 1t is
harder to fool that dog than 1t is some men.
SALE by candle is a method of auction that
was at one time common throughout England
and Scotland, and that still survives in some
places north of the Tweed. In form slightly
differing from that which used to be almost
universal in this country. it may to this day
be witnessed IN Bremen, although the munich
pal authorities OF that city have decided to
abolish 1t at the end OF the year Every
Friday afternoon in a room In the old ex-
change a judge and his secretary take their
seats, attended by a crier and q servant dress
ed in a flame eolored coat and supplied with
box of tiny candles. each Of which IS intend :
ed to burn for one minute. At given signal
candle il lighted. and the bidding for what
ever happens to be on sale begins. Al each
offer from u d-be purchaser the burn ing
candle Is eXtingulshed and IA new one light ed (:
and the property Is only disposed Of when a
candle burns itself out ere q fresh bid bas
been announced by the crier. This custom